ALBANY – A Coeymans, man was arraigned on one count of murder in the second degree, in Albany County Supreme Court Thursday morning.

A Grand Jury previously returned an indictment alleging that between May 24th and 25th 2014, while at a residence on Biers Road in the Town of Coeymans, Brandon Biers, 24, caused the death of his mother by means of strangling her.

Biers pleaded not guilty to the charges today and is being held without bail.